One sentence is NextEra’s only mention of Sabal Trail; nothing about
the Sierra Club lawsuit against FERC
that less than a week later saw
the DC Circuit Court reject all requests for rehearing,
meaning as early as next week the court may mandate shutting down Sabal Trail.
NextEra company FPL is the sole remaining customer listed in Sabal Trail’s
custoner index.
Maybe it’s time to bail out and get on with solar power in the Sunshine State.

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For maps of the rest of the Southeast Market Pipelines Project (SMPP, including Sabal Trail),
see SMPP.

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Caught on-camera:
ALEC’s off-duty sheriff’s deputies getting TV reporters thrown out of their own hotel
for “taking pictures in the hotel”, after ALEC’s marketing droid denied any
lobbying going on, nevermind the lobbyist and
legislator in a bar spelling out how it works:
ALEC gives “scholarships” to legislators who then meet in closed rooms
with corporate reps (including all the companies involved in the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline) who have equal votes
on draft bills for legislators to get passed as law in many states.
Bills promoting fracking, pipelines, LNG export, and against solar power,
renewable portfolio standards, not to mention for private prisons
and privatized education and against municipal broadband and country-of-origin labelling, plus many other
corporate give-aways subsidized by the taxpayers and the environment.
It’s time for the IRS to revoke ALEC’s 501(c)(3) status.
And for the Georgia legislature to apply the state’s sunshine laws to itself.

According to Sabal Trail’s own numbers, twice as much land for
the entire three-pipeline Spectra -> Sabal -> FSC proposed gouge
through three states
as would be required to produce as much solar power.

For those that are against having the pipeline run through their
property, go to Ocala Star Banner on the web
where there is a map with the proposed route for the pipeline from
Alabama to Florida. This route barely touches the southwest corner
of Georgia (if at all). Why did Sabal change the route? I don’t
either. The newspaper is dated October 24, 2013.

A $3.5 billion, 600-mile natural-gas pipeline system that will
stretch from Alabama into Florida is still in the planning stages,
but homeowners near the Ichetucknee and Santa Fe rivers are
concerned because the routes being proposed might run through their
neighborhoods.

Landowners in Georgia don’t want it crossing their land or the
Flint or Withlacoochee Rivers, either.

After the series of divide-and-conquer landowner meetings
Spectra just held, another series of Open Houses starts in December:
here’s the schedule.
Later, FERC may hold and sponsor Scoping Meetings.
Local counties can hold public hearings in addition to all these,
and Andrea Grover said in front of multiple witnesses that Spectra
would speak and answer questions at such a county public hearing.

What costs
less than a latte or a slice of pizza?
A day’s electricity from Florida Power and Light, according to
FPL VP Pam Rauch who also is NextEraEnergy VP and President of yet
another pipeline company shell that wants to pull a 100 foot gas pipeline through
Georgia for the benefit of Florida.

Look at the other company names in this filing:
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC (Transco),
Florida Southeast Connection, LLC (FSC),
and Merjent, Inc.
And another one, since filer Lisa A. Connolly is listed by Spectra as with
Gulfstream Natural Gas System, LLC.
Oh, and she’s also
General Manager, Spectra Energy Transmission, according to
Center for Houston’s Future.
United Way of Houston says she’s
General Manager, Rates & Certificates
for the Spectral puppet master, Spectra Energy.

All three shells, Sabal Trail, Transco, and FSC,
are hoping to get a common environmental rubberstamp
with Merjent ghost-writing their Spectral document:

Transco- and FSC-sponsored projects are requesting separate pre-filing reviews.
However, you have indicated that these three projects are connected actions and, as such,
my staff will perform a single environmental review of these projects and will prepare
one environmental impact statement that addresses all three projects….

My staff has reviewed the proposals submitted for the selection of one third-party
contractor to assist us in preparing the National Environmental Policy Act documentation
required for the Sabal Trail, Transco, and FSC Projects. We have selected Merjent, Inc.
(Merjent) as the third-party contractor to work under the direct supervision and control of
the Commission staff for all three projects. I request that you, Transco and FSC proceed
with executing a contract with Merjent so work may begin as soon as possible.